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Rezension Stereo 1/2017 Januar | Arnt Cobbers | January 1, 2017 Kritiker-Umfrage: Die zehn besten CDs 2016

Arndt Cobbers: 2. Schumann, Sämtliche Sinfonische Werke Vol. 5; Kopatchinskaja, Lonquich, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Holliger (Audite): Das als problematisch geltende Spätwerk in fesselnden Interpretationen.
The Guardian

Rezension The Guardian Thursday 17 March 2016 | Andrew Clements | March 17, 2016 Schumann: Konzertstücke; Fantasies

The work for four horns stands out, if only for the novelty of its scoring, and Holliger’s performance – with a fabulously secure quartet of soloists – luxuriates in the sonorities it generates, while in the two works with piano, the soloist Alexander Lonquich finds moments of poetic beauty in the lyrical interludes.
www.ilcorrieremusicale.it

Rezension www.ilcorrieremusicale.it 18 febbraio 2016 | Stefano Cascioli | February 18, 2016 Il quinto volume del corpus sinfonico di Schumann che Heinz Holliger e la WDR...

Senza dubbio è un Cd piuttosto singolare, che, vista la proposta di brani ben poco conosciuti, ha i tratti delle incisioni “di riempimento” (necessarie in ogni integrale che si rispetti), ma non per questo è una proposta meno interessante, anzi gli accostamenti sono davvero suggestivi, e chiariscono ancor meglio alcune peculiarità del complesso pensiero schumanniano.
American Record Guide

Rezension American Record Guide September / October 2016 | Stephen Wright | September 1, 2016 This is Volume 6 of Audite’s Complete Symphonic Works edition and contains...

This is Volume 6 of Audite’s Complete Symphonic Works edition and contains Schumann’s earliest and latest pieces for orchestra, including all his overtures. As with his hero, Beethoven, Schumann’s overtures are better known than any of the stage or operatic music they precede. And, like Beethoven, Schumann had a gift for writing exciting, memorable overtures.

Beethoven’s influence is also obvious in the only non-overture here, the unfinished Zwickau Symphony of 1833; this is Schumann’s third and final revision of the first movement, so it lacks the slow intro of John Gardiner’s 1998 recording (DG 457591). Gardiner’s orchestra has 40 strings where Holliger’s has 60, plus Holliger’s accents are tempered and his pace relaxed, so I heard for the first time the influence of Louis Spohr—another hero of the young Schumann—in the wilting chromaticism of the s tring figures.

Before the two-movement symphony, Holliger raises the curtain on the concert with the mature sonata-form Manfred Overture. In it we hear Holliger’s approach to all the overtures: warm, genial, and flowing. He lets the dramatic tension build up slowly, free of histrionics, with subtle orchestral flexibility to broaden tempos for grand climaxes and lyrical passages. The violins are split left and right as they were in Schumann’s time and they play cleanly, without vibrato, and this clarifies Schumann’s allegedly thick and clumsy orchestrations. There’s no mention anywhere of period instruments or gut strings, so I assume they’re modern, but at 60 strong they don’t sound shrill, nor do they indulge any supposed historic practice like swelling on long notes.

The sound quality matches interpretation: warm, full, and detailed, especially the surround-sound recording, right now available only as a download from Audite’s website (mentioned on the back of the digipak). The improvement in three-dimensional depth and presence is unmistakable in the five overtures recorded in 2010 but subtle in the symphony and Manfred recorded in 2015. Considering the high quality of both performance and surround-sound recording, I hope Audite issues a boxed set of this complete series on SACD (or Blu-Ray).

The booklet is informative, recounting the circumstances of each piece’s composition. This is an attractive and rewarding survey of Schumann’s overtures and makes me want to hear the other volumes in the series.
Correspondenz Robert Schumann Gesellschaft

Rezension Correspondenz Robert Schumann Gesellschaft Nr. 39 / Januar 2017 | Irmgard Knechtges-Obrecht | January 1, 2017 Mit dieser CD endet die von Heinz Holliger und dem Kölner WDR Sinfonieorchester...

Die Musiker des WDR Sinfonieorchesters finden aufgrund des feinnervigen und auf Schumann spezialisierten Dirigats von Heinz Holliger für jedes Werk den entsprechenden Ton, was diese CD besonders farbenreich und vielseitig werden lässt.
Das Orchester

Rezension Das Orchester 11/2016 | Jörg Loskill | November 1, 2016 Alles kommt irgendwann einmal heraus… Mit dieser Binsenweisheit könnte man...

Der vielseitige Musiker Heinz Holliger ist als Dirigent ein kenntnisreicher Schumann-Exeget, der zusammen mit dem Maßstäbe setzenden WDR-Orchester alles zum Leuchten, Glühen und Brillieren bringt, was der Komponist anstrebte: einfach schöne Musik aus dem Geist der pulsierenden und aktuellen Romantik, ungebrochen, aber nachhaltig reflektiert.
Fanfare

Rezension Fanfare October 2016 | Peter Burwasser | October 1, 2016 This is the sixth and final volume of Audite’s survey of the complete...

This is the sixth and final volume of Audite’s survey of the complete symphonic works of Robert Schumann. As is often the case with such productions, the last volume is the mop-up of miscellanea and usually seldom heard music. The Manfred Overture that opens the program is by far the best-known work here. It bursts forth with the heft and swagger that has been noted with unanimity by previous Fanfare reviewers of this series. Nearly all of the music on this CD is inspired by literature, and Holliger and his Cologne based band play with a fearless sense of theatricality. I will also echo my colleagues in praise of the orchestra’s lucidity of texture (it has been suggested that the use of smaller string sections in the WDR Symphony Orchestra helps to achieve this, although there is nothing in the notes for this volume to corroborate that claim) and for the excellence of the Audite audio engineering, a quality I am well familiar with from other Audite recordings.

While there are no revelations in this program, the music is generally of high quality, even though it comes from the end of Schumann’s career, perhaps something of a rejoinder to the “truism” that Schumann’s abilities and imagination had eroded somewhat at this point. The problem for the listener, at least this one, is that the blustery nature of this dramatic music becomes a bit wearisome by the end of a complete listening. In hindsight, it may have made more sense to have included these dramatic overtures in more varied programs of symphonies and concertos, as is usually the practice in presenting such work. The exception is the early attempt at symphonic writing by a 21-year-old Schumann, the incomplete Symphony in G-Minor, named for the city it was premiered in, Zwickau. It is replete with lovely writing, with the composer’s signature firmly in place.

The complete set of Schumann orchestral music by these forces is certainly a success by almost any measure. I would offer one caveat, and that is that the WDR SO, while excellent and a great pleasure to hear, lacks the ultimate degree of polish and finesse of the top-tier orchestras of the world. But I’m not sure how much that matters in this material, given that a certain degree of lustiness, if anything, enhances the expressiveness of the music.
Fono Forum

Rezension Fono Forum August 2016 | Michael Kube | August 1, 2016 Empfehlung des Monats

Ein großer Zyklus kommt zum Abschluss. Nach den Sinfonien, Konzerten und Konzertstücken stehen in der letzten Folge der nahezu rundweg beeindruckenden Schumann-Einspielungen die Ouvertüren auf dem Programm. Das in Detmold beheimatete Label "audite" hat auch damit wieder einmal einen Coup gelandet. Konnte Heinz Holliger mit dem WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln schon zuvor besonders bei den Sinfonien überzeugen (bei den konzertierenden Solisten war der wählenden Hand das Glück nicht immer hold), wird hier nun für ein noch immer unbekanntes Repertoire eine Lanze gebrochen. Denn dass Schumann sich neben der genialen Manfred-Ouvertüre gerade in seinem Spätwerk intensiv mit der an großen Schauspielen orientierten Konzertouvertüre schöpferisch auseinandergesetzt hat, dürfte noch immer weithin unbekannt sein. Die Stücke sind im Konzertsaal wahre Raritäten und auf CD kaum einmal in der verdienten Qualität anzutreffen.

Holliger aber sind anscheinend gerade diese Partituren ans Herz gewachsen – so ausgeglichen und wirklich als große Werke gespielt habe ich sie noch nicht gehört. Und sie zeigen Schumann im vollen Besitz seiner Fertigkeiten. Wer noch immer von angeblichen Problemen bei der Instrumentation spricht, sollte eher von Problemen der jeweiligen Interpretation sprechen (einer meiner persönlichen Favoriten ist und bleibt die Ouvertüre zu "Julius Cäsar"). Der für Schumann charakteristische, kompakte Klang kommt jedenfalls dem Sinfonieorchester des WDR entgegen, das schon fünf der Kompositionen 2010 eingespielt und sich den "Manfred" wie auch die frühe, unvollständig gebliebene Zwickauer Sinfonie in g-Moll nun für das Finale aufgespart hat – nicht als Supplement, sondern als geniale Vorschau auf das, was noch kommen sollte. So gespielt wirken die beiden Sätze denn auch nicht als philologische Kuriositäten, sondern künstlerisch berechtigt. Aus Holligers Nähe zu Schumann ist hier mit kühlem Kopf etwas Erstrangiges erwachsen.

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